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This
treehouse is perched halfway up a cliff supported by five
gnarled oak trees. It was built by
Roderick Romero for actor Val Kilmer in Pecos, New Mexico,
USA. The frame is made from roundwood juniper with windows
trimmed in dried cactus husks. The door and rusty metal roof
were salvaged from a local 19th century derelict barn. The
118 ft.sq. (11m2) treehouse, with a terrace of 150 ft.sq. (14m2), stands on a cliff's
edge in Val's 6,000 acre (2,400ha) Pecos River Ranch.
The treehouse is supported on
Garnier Limbs which allows the trees bear weights far beyond
what they could without the device. Below are video buttons
where the inventor
presents the device and also provides full
Garnier Limb
installation instruction.
Roderick says, "I spent five days walking, walking and
climbing to finally find this amazing oak grove halfway up a
cliff ... giving away on the Pecos River. The project was
inspired by the cliff swallows that build their nests in the
cliffs." The treehouse inspired a poem, the
last line of which reads, "The treehouse sways we four, to
sleep, like a mother that all of us instinctively miss". From
a poem by Eric Lawson who spent a night there. |
